The next morning Hazel wakes up panicked, because she
had a bad dream. Then Hazel gets a text from Kaitlyn. She suggests
the torn out notebook pages might have been mailed to someone else.
Hazel quickly emails Lidewij, hoping that Augustus might have sent
the pages to Van Houten. Lidewij agrees to search for the pages at
Van Houtens house in the morning.
Then Hazels mother gets into her room, for telling
her, that it´s Bastille Day and that means, they´re going for a
family picnic the the Holiday Park. After the picnic Hazel and her
parents visit Augustus´s grave.
That evening Hazel gets an email from Lidewij, that
she founds the notebook pages. She forced Van Houten, who was very
drunk, to read them and when he finishes he said: “Send it to the
girl and tell her I have nothing to add.”
Hazel starts reading. The letter itself is a plea
from Augustus, requesting that Van Houten utilize his superior
literary skills to help him write an eulogy for Hazel. Augustus says
we all want to leave our mark on the world, him included, but these
marks are really unpleasant scars. Hazel is different. She tries not
to harm anyone or anything. The real heroes, he says, are the ones
who notice things and pay attention. Augustus then describes seeing
Hazel in the ICU after she was hospitalized and he found out his
cancer had returned. He writes that we have no choice about whether
or not we get hurt in the world, but you can choose who hurts you and
that Augustus likes his choice.
He only hopes that Hazel likes hers too. The final
two words of the novel are from Hazel: “I do.”
